"There are many things for Europeans to worry about as they watch the Trump administration blow up the international order. There is the chaos of having international markets careening around the whims of one man. There is the ominous talk from an aggressive superpower lusting over Greenland. There is the catastrophic dismantling of efforts to rally the world to address the climate crisis."
"Specifically, our "chlorine chicken," Europe's term for American chemically washed poultry. "EXCLUSIVE: UK-US Trade Deal: Keep Your Chlorine Chicken America, Britain Must Not Pay This Price," read one British headline from May. "Don't Like the Idea of Chlorinated Chicken? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," read another. The panic over "chlorine chicken" is a noble British tradition that reappears every time the public considers the prospect of deepening its economic entanglement with the U.S."
Europeans worry about the Trump administration blowing up the international order, including chaotic markets, U.S. interest in Greenland, and rollback of climate cooperation. For some European countries, a more intimate fear centers on Americans forcing chlorine-washed poultry into domestic markets. The U.K. faces renewed panic because Brexit has loosened its regulatory constraints, making concessions more likely. The British press ran alarmist headlines warning that the White House demanded supermarkets stock chlorinated chicken. The aversion traces to 2014 U.S.-EU trade talks and resurfaces whenever deeper economic entanglement with the United States is considered.
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